Wednesday, 5 October 2016

LO3: Genre theory

Genre is a type or category of film 
  • horror
  • comedy- a threatment that would feed into other genre 
  • romance
  • war
  • action/adventure
  • scifi
  • fantacy
  • thriller
  • social realisme
EXAM QUESTION

6* Analyse how the production techniques used to create meaning in a media product you have studied (12)
Micro-Macro

6* Analyse the concepts of 'genre' and 'representaton' in the media product you have studied (12)
Micro-Macro

A genre has common elements are called generic coventions/characters/elements

 
Southpaw is an action, thriller, sport, drama, film
Image result for southpaw genre
Key theory:Barry Keith Grant (1995) : All genres have subgenres

a possible subgenre of my film is

Key theory; Patrick Philips 1996-genre offers the audience 'comfortable reassurance'

my film provides familiarity to an audience by having a mildly typical story line of this type of film

key theory: Branston Staford 1999-
  • genres help minimise risk
  • are a blue print for success
  • genre conventions also makes it easier to market and sell products to audiences
My film was advertised through following in the footsteps of other sucsesfull boxing movies i.e. Rocky

Rick Altman (1999) geners offers pleasure
  • emotional plesure- happy, sad
  • visceral pleasures- exitement, fear, laughter
  • intelectual puzzles- makes the audience think

my film makes the aduience have emotional pleasures sadness when his wife dies and his dughter is taken away
Image result for southpaw wife


 





Key theory: David borwell 1989- any theme may apeare in a genre

theme= The ideas, ideologies, concepts, myths, ect

the themes in my films is about

  • the theme is rags to riches/riches to rags

KTA 5

define gere (intro)

relate the key theories to my film









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